Saudi Arabian declaration: It is written in the Sha’bân 1397 A.H. (1977) copy of the weekly periodical Ad-da’wa, which was prepared by a madrasa named Jâmi’at al-Islâmiyya in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, “In the coming enlargement of Masjid an-Nabî, only the west side should be widened and the great bid’a should be ended. The great bid’a is the inclusion of the three graves in the masjid. The eastern wall should be brought back to its former place, and the graves should be left outside the masjid.”

The Independent, of United Kingdom [dated 24th Sept. 2011], reported, “A pamphlet published in 2007 by the Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs, endorsed by Abdulaziz Al Sheikh, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, stated that “the green dome shall be demolished and the three graves flattened in the Prophet’s Masjid”.